Sheriff's Department - History
1880 - 1883 & 1886 - 1888 S.K. Sharples
was born in Pennsylvania in 1841 and moved
to Laramie County Wyoming in the 1870s where the Union Pacific
Railroad employed him. He was elected as Laramie County Sheriff
three times, the first in 1880 then again in 1882 and 1886.
Sheriff Sharples was also a member of the Wyoming Legislature
serving in the House of Representatives.
Information obtained from Wyoming
Territorial Sheriff's, by Ann Gorzalka. |
Seth
K. Sharples
